All-ex:
Strong
steady cross wind landings are normally a "piece of cake" in any heavy aircraft and fun to do, also. Gusty, windshear approaches with an aircraft low in weight, are something different.
Regarding the video of those take-off and landing demonstrations on the A380, please take a look at the first take-off and special attention to the number one engine during rotation at time 00:32s and you will see a close call for an engine strike, with an airbus pilot at the controls...
Regarding the fact that an Airbus TRI was on board, I don't think he may have been able to do anything but call for an overshoot.
In the avherald photo
Incident: Korean A388 at Tokyo on Jul 21st 2011, engine pod strike, one may see that a wrong technique was used: the aircraft landed on the left side of the runway centerline, left rudder and too much [obvious] right wing down, were used maybe in an attempt to bring it to the centerline...
An overshoot would have been the best chance to avoid any dual input on the side sticks. The fact that side sticks don't give PNF any feedbacks of what PF is really doing makes the role of PNF a very hard one...